Excerpt from The Joy of Finding: Or, God's Humanity and Man's Inhumanity to Man, an Exposition of Luke XV. 11-32 The two companion parables which the evangelist assigns to the same occasion are also a defence Of Jesus' care for sinners but the point of comparison is not exactly the same. The emphasis in each is on sorrow in the loss and joyin the recovery of one of many possessions, one sheep out Of a hundred, and one coin out of ten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.